Safari features some tools produced to guide consumers from little annoyances including autoplay ads and cross-site cookie tracking. Safari was unveiled as a portion of macOS 10.13 High Sierra.

According to TechCrunch, Apple is inculcating differential privacy technology into the product, making valuable insight into the browsing experience of users, without disclosing sensitive data. With proper data collection, Apple hopes to find suites that monopolize memory allocation and system processes, possibly causing Safari to crash. The firm is also utilizing data gathered from users to select the sites to take actions against. Responses will probably base on the popularity of offending property, for instance.

Apple’s privacy tech

Apple at the Worldwide Developers Conference held in June disclosed its research and development privacy technology. By implementing various techniques such as subsampling, hashing and noise injection to vast data samples, Apple can spot broad trends without affecting individual users’ experience.

Some people believe the technique is a better than traditional anonymization techniques other data and internet service firms use, though others fail to believe. A research team from the University of Southern California, Tsinghua University, Indiana University stated Apple’s implementation entails particular data slip both on iOS and macOS.

Apple replied, saying it doesn’t agree with many findings of the study, especially the level of data that can be related to a person. The firm hinted the built-in-protection policies involving data storage limits, collection opt-in and rejection of IP address.

Safari in macOS High Sierra features differential privacy technology discussed as Device Analytics tool. Users who concurred to Mac Analytics to Apple will have the data collection characteristic activated automatically.